Posts by steviebuk 2939 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Feb 2017
THIS. THIS IS THE STORY THAT NEEDS TO BE TOLD!
The amount of "quiz shows" etc that bring up the Y2K event and the "comedians" always take the piss that "nothing happened" ignore that "nothing happened" because people people spent months BEFORE the date fucking fixing it.
I would say I missed out on all the money earned then as was just finishing off a HND so not in work, but appears so did lots of people when companies were being tight and just gave people the bollocks of Time off in Lieu.
I tried that in the 90s while camping with my parents and cousin. He was learning Spanish so we made a plan, I'd fall asleep first with the headphones on and he'd press play on the walkman once I'd fallen asleep. I woke up half way through the night thinking he'd forgotten but no, he'd done it and the headphones were still on my head. That whole tape of Spanish is in there somewhere but I've never recalled any of it.
but when you only know a tiny bit of Powershell, sometimes using chatGPT is useful to just slap something together. I know its flawed, but can help but also seeing how shit it is yet management in companies think its amazing and can replace staff.
CoPilot, despite using ChatGPT, with a proper license, struggles after about the 5th question given to it about writing a powershell script. So bad it freezes for about 5mins a time, then gets so bad its just unusable. You'll get it to basically do what you want, ask it to add a bit and it breaks the 1st part. You'll get it to fix it, which it does, ask it to add something and it does but puts the broken code back in the first part that you told it was broken earlier.
I switched to ChatGPT direct which was much faster. But you'll ask it to do something where ' are involved and it knows full well that if it uses smart unicode ', powershell breaks yet still uses it. The code was failing with the incorrect error by powershell but looking at the code I spotted the smart unicode. ChatGPT admitted it was wrong, so why use it in the first place.
Again, I dislike most of the AI shit but its useful for slapping stuff together without people on reddit or stackoverflow saying "If you don't know the basic starts there, blah blah blah".
"His appointment came with a commitment to expand Mozilla's involvement with AI services."
No one wants that, certainly not in fucking firefox. You've already massively fucked it up, now you'll just make it worse. Maybe you're a double agent to put a final nail in its coffin.
"a Tasmania-based computer scientist who co-founded an award-winning game development company and has written multiple books on developing for Objective-C, the Swift programming language, and iOS."
Yet trusted all his work and family photos to CrApple. And doesn't appear to have a 321 back policy! Does he have any backup policy?
More reason to hate Apple.
Buy one of his shitty hats for £2
Give him £5. While he's being a div ask him for change for your £10, and he'll give you your £5 back not realising but then say you've changed your mind and ask for your £10 back & change for £20, he'll give two £10s back, your £10 and another £10 but say you've changed your mind again. You want your £20 back and change for £10
As we already know he's a fuck whit he won't notice he's given you £15 of his own money and will think he's done a great deal.
Or just tell him "Go fuck a duck you orange tango man cunt"
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What marketing WANK.
No one seems to ever learn that EVERYONE hates business speak wank!
Old but I'll reply anyway. The problem with stopping spoof is you can do it for legit reasons. For example at work not giving out direct dial numbers so everyone sees the number as the main office number. I've used that for spammers. Called them back but displaying their own number to confuse them.
Fucking annoys the fuck out of me
""The new deal that we've done with Microsoft drove much lower prices across the range of products. We noticed as a consequence that customers across government waited to renew their purchases from Microsoft until we'd done the deal and signed their new contracts because we'd been able to negotiate a better deal," he said.
"Where we are buying from big vendors, we need to improve the value for money that we get. We've done that with Microsoft. We've also done a strategic agreement with Google on the buying of Google Cloud, which again has the same objective.""
You haven't done a good deal. They've made you THINK you're getting a good deal. They'll tie you in THEN raise the prices, they always do this. Anyone can tell you they do this. But because its the fucking easy option you make out you've got a "good deal". At which point you'll leave to fool the next company you're great.
You should have been looking at moving back in house as it would be cheaper than the cloud. You could even have hybrid, which would be cheaper than cloud. Google is dead. Its not for large business' as is fucking awful.
Laptops and phones. You'll go with the big players and ignore the fact it would, in the long run, be better to pay for the likes of Framework. A modular laptop that is actually fucking repairable. Same with the phones with a Fairphone.
But oh no, instead you listen to the smarmy sales cunts and the big corporations. Get praised for bullshit and move on and grift elsewhere.
For several years I've been saying full cloud is a bad idea and will be MORE expensive. For months I was getting told "No, you're wrong. It will be cheaper as you'll be getting rid of your old kit". As always, I was ignored and they were listened to until recently. Someone kicked off "Why is our bill increasing? You said it would be cheaper to go full cloud". They've finally admitted "Of course its not going to be cheaper". Its in THEIR best interest that we are fully cloud, not ours.
I smirked but said nothing.
Fuck whits.
At work, every day I login to the 365 admin console I get fucking told by MS, that "You are aware you can pin CoPilot for everyone". Yeah, stop fucking telling me the same thing every fucking day and stop trying to FORCE CoPilot on me. Normally forcing stuff on people gets you a prison sentence.
Cause that would be a pain in the arse.
Having a good DKIM and DMARC setup is the way to go.
Although neither protect from 3rd party contractors who themselves have had a mailbox breach. So all the phishing is coming from a trusted mailbox.
As we always say "If you're not expecting it. Don't following the links and certainly DON'T put in your login details". Sadly, they continues to fall on deaf ears.
Another mistake trying to move to google workspace. It truely is dog shit. I suspect google drive management still relies on GAM (which appeared to be an afterthought by an internal engineer who realised admins had no ability to manage user drives). GAM had a massive security flaw last time I used it. You could steel someone elses setup and run all the admin commands as them with no password challenge.
True. As I was leaving a company, I wrote a guide for the main software they use. The install step by step and any errors that may come up and how to fix.
I write my guides how I want them, no assumptions. I don't assume someone knows something about certain areas. So I put every step in and try and include photos.
I still got one of the other engineers to run through it to check he and others could follow it. He found some "assumptions" which I corrected.
Appears to have been of little use as the new engineer that came in ignored my guides, so I'm told by the department. They were telling me the new engineer had this issue that he hasn't been able to resolve for days. I said "Thats in my guide, its a simple fix when you know. Why isn't he using it?" They said he claimed "Oh that was written by the last engineer, its all changed since then so I don't refer to it".
Nothing had changed, it was exactly the fucking same, he was just to much of a fuck whit to except help when needed.
did the classic of taking a screenshot of an engineers desktop then setting it as their background and hiding the icons.
The rule was you don't do jokes that stop someone from working, however, this guy was a cunt & got someone fired once so we did it more to prove a point, that he was shit and a grifter. The person that should have been given the boot was him.
It worked. Took him ages to work out what the issue was, with a lot of ranting during, then finding it out what happened, getting annoyed then switching to finding it a bit funny, mutterings of reporting it to management.
We all still found it funny, it proved he was a grifter and a cunt.
Most local councils are like this
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The fact they appealed, twice and then the offended kept her job is typical.
Same will happen here. The offenders will keep their job regardless.
Problem is usability really. Linux is nice and all but not always easy to understand and use. Open source is great but they tend to have no customer facing, marketing skills. Take openJDK for example. That is an ARSE to navigate, this site is truly shit, especially for finding a downloading for Windows. Yes, a couple of clicks away maybe but really its not great. Yet I discovered the other day MS have made their build of it and its a simple MSI download, so of course, the folks that don't know will head for the Microsoft MSI release, its just easier.
is why the ESU machines we have are getting this shitty message. And there was me going to have to waste my time confirming the ESU key was actually applied.
Their testing is now no existent. Shadow of their former self since satnav took over and outsourced a large chunk of the support forums and more.
Last time I installed it, I was under the assumption it would block all ads on sites like The Mirror etc. All the news paper sites with the "Pay to still get adverts but ones that aren't targetted towards you" but it doesn't block any of that due to the way the sites work. I started to feel more and more pi-hole seemed totally pointless.
I'm trying it again but still getting same results.
